Tonight was entirely spent working on the elevator
controls. I think I will start backwards and explain the pictures of
tonight first. The first picture is up elevator with radio control. The
second picture is down elevator with radio control. The third picture is
the servos in the fuse which is upside down for the picture. The last
picture shows the nose bubble on the fuse.

The reason for the nose bubble picture is to show the builder of another
project, "Heavy Date", the fit. From the pictures of his project, his nose
bubble does not look correct. I was contacted to see how ours fit and I did
not have an answer, as we never tried before.

Now for work done tonight. First we removed the elevators and bolted the
#4-40 ball links and reinstalled the elevator. Next we installed the
threaded ends to one end of the carbon fiber rods which are 38" long. After
some discussion, we started building the servo rails. They are stationed
right behind the navigator's gun window. Once the rails were build, we
installed the Hitec 645MG servos and attached the push rod to the elevator.
We had to remove the elevator and enlarge the holes through the rear
bulkheads for proper push rod placement. After putting everything back
together we marked the proper carbon fiber length. Then we installed the
threaded ends to the servo side of the carbon fiber rods.

Now we installed a temporary receiver with battery and tried it out.
Greg was the first to elevator fly the bird. When he got done Rick and I
had our turns. Heck, even my daughter and her boyfriend got their turns.
Once we finally got the grins to subside from our faces we called it a
night!

--
Gary Himes

Week 66 - 25 February 2004

Did you ever have one of those nights when everything you
touched turned

to ****? Well we had one of those
nights. The rudder servo got raised and bolted into position but the
two elevator servos are still not bolted down yet. Next the horizontal stab
and elevators were removed to get access to work on the rudder end. The last
picture shows this with the rudder controls temporally held inplace
and some electric wire mocked up to figure the pull-pull cable paths. We
called it a night and hoped for better progress next week.

I know this is short tonight, guess I am just
out of wind.

-- Gary Himes

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